To address the growing disconnect between the community and its food, the ACPF will launch a large project to narrow the gap for Australian wild prawns in early 2020. The FRDC project (2018/172: Methods to profile and connect the provenance of wild caught prawn fisheries and their values to the community) will roll out [...]
Provenance technology promises higher consumer confidence in Aussie prawn origins Senator the Hon ‘Jonno’ Duniam, Federal Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries, enthusiastically launched the ACPF/APFA/FRDC project to profile Australian prawns by their environmental fingerprint at the Boatbuilders Yard on 9th October. This event followed the ‘trace metals’ project taking [...]
The ACPF Members and RD&E forums and 2018 AGM took place in Brisbane on 26th September with 15 members participating, either in person or by video link. Forum updates included a progress and investment report against the ACPF Strategic & RD & E plans, trace metals profiles, national SeSafe project, bycatch reduction/trawl efficiency project [...]
Prawn samples covering all of Australia’s major fishing and aquaculture areas will be analysed by Source Certain International (SCI)* for their identifying trace metal profiles by mid 2019. The database of trace metal profiles aims to provide the industry with the ability to prove provenance and product integrity. The technical ability to prove a [...]
UPDATE: 18 October 2018 Port meetings continue in prawn fisheries to explain techniques for greater bycatch reduction and improved catch efficiency as part of the ACPF bycatch extension project. Common interest was expressed by our members on 26th September in : a) examining Kon’s Covered Fisheye and/or the FishEX 70 compared to the square [...]
UPDATE: 14 July 2018 Australia’s prawn fisheries’ ongoing commitment to a more targeted and efficient catch is not just better for the industry’s profitability but earns it respect amongst the community. As part of a national project to explain and adapt techniques for greater bycatch reduction and improved catch efficiency in each fishery, seven workshops [...]
The National Seafood Industry Leadership Program 2018 (NSILP 2018) is the leadership platform being delivered through funding from the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) and developed, managed and delivered by Rural Training Initiatives P/L. The NSILP 2018 is the only national industry specific leadership program for the Australian seafood industry and was designed in [...]
Snapshot With research commitments spanning on-water, through the supply chain and at point of sale, ACPF is on track to bring more results to fishers via the 2016-2020 RD&E Industry Partnership Agreement (IPA) with FRDC. 30% of our way through the IPA we are also close to having 30% of Research, Development and Extension funds [...]
Rarely do fishers from around the country get together in one room and talk about how trawl gear can be adapted to suit fishing conditions and to exclude unwanted species however representatives from all prawn fishing jurisdictions met at a workshop in Sydney in February to do just that. The purpose of the workshop was [...]
1. Project to investigate the use of trace element profiles to substantiate provenance for the Australian prawn industry. ACPF is partnering with Australian Prawn Farmers’ Association to “Investigate the use of trace element profiles to substantiate provenance for the Australian prawn industry.” The origin of food can be established by its profile of trace [...]
